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Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online

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On 2/7/2014 3:55 PM, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:

>> And thanks to a $4.38 billion exclusive deal NBC struck
>> with the International Olympics Committee (IOC) in 2011 for the
>> privilege of broadcasting the Olympic games in the U.S. through 2020,
>> cord-cutters don't have a lot of options.

It inspires the question: what does the IOC do with all of this cash?
There's at least $4.4 Billion from USA, ₤1 Billion from the UK (taxpayer
/ licensee), almost another half billion from corporate sponsorship /
licensing for *this event*.

Outside of paying for medals themselves, sending a lit torch on a
wold-wide tour every now and then, prize bonuses for athletes (up to
$15,000 for gold medal winners), and allegedly distributing some cash to
athletes from poorer countries (so they can eat and train), they do not
pay for the needed infrastructure in host countries, nor security or
much of anything else.

It sounds like the best scheme ever invented. Just sayin'

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The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 14:55 -0800
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 20:08 +0000
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-08 16:28 -0500
      Re: The $4.38 billion reason it¹s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-09 15:18 +0000
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-08 23:24 +0200
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 14:50 -0800
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-09 02:13 +0200
      Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 18:38 -0800
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-09 09:34 -0500
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Atom Cogswell <m8r-uu8mmb@mailinator.com> - 2014-02-10 11:42 -0700
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-10 21:37 +0200
      Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Atom Cogswell <m8r-uu8mmb@mailinator.com> - 2014-02-10 13:25 -0700
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